Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Florie Schmits @florieschmits.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher on sibling placement in care @UoBrisSPS funded by @ESRC. Children's social care, mixed methods, admin data. Lives in Exeter, mum of two.
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Mind @mind.org.uk Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
Yinka Olusoga @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education | Researching histories/practices of childhood, play & education | Views my own | Foucault would dispute this
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social Researcher, Imperial College London • Historian #HistMed • PhD in Military Medicine • Blast Injury • Chronic Pain • Applied History • Cats, Podcasts, Spooky Things. And Pastry.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social Newcastle University Special Collections & Archives is an Accredited Archive Service, home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
Find out more: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Harriet Palfreyman @harrietpalfreyman.bsky.social she/her.
Lecturer in Science and Health Communication at the University of Manchester. Visual cultures, surgery, sci fi and sickness. Lapsed historian.
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social Policy Director at ThinkLabour thinking about how progressives can win. Prev JRF, Citizens Advice, Trussell Trust. Views always my own.
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England. 
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Hazel Croft (she/her) @hcroft.bsky.social Socialist, trade union activist, trans ally. Writing on history of war and trauma, civilian mental health in WW2, gender, disability. 
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social Historian in London for money (histories of modern British health, mental illness, law, and such: I wrote a book called 'Looking after Miss Alexander').
Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, ask me about my chickens.
Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood
Institute of the History of Medicine at JHU @histmedjhu.bsky.social History of medicine, disease, and the health sciences & their relation to society. Historical perspectives on contemporary health issues.
Catriona Ellis @catrionaellis.bsky.social Historian of children & childhood, education, juvenile justice, health, welfare in C20 South India.
Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Christian.
https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/catriona-ellis
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Cathy Coleborne @cathycoleborne.bsky.social Historian of illness, health & medicine, with a focus on institutions & psychiatry, based at the University of Newcastle, Australia. New project on polio memories & experiences.
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
@louiseheren.bsky.social @louiseheren.bsky.social Social (often Scottish, frequently women's) history academic & writer; Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes, Sex & Violence in 1920s Scotland; coauthor Tanks on the Streets? & Glasgow 1919; also British Nannies & the Great War
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Going out to steal a movie. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
She/her
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social #MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please, Bit face blind so won’t recognize you out of context!
End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social End Sexism in Schools is a charity campaigning for a UK education system that is free of sexism and that allows all children to fulfil their potential. Find out more here: endsexisminschools.org.uk
Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social #ChildlessCatLady #SaveTheTricorn Solicitor/TOG/Former Wren/sparkly crafter/gardener/angry feminist/parkrunner/loves history, country music, cream teas & Mr W
Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social Oral historian; cultural history of war and gender.
Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
Caring Communities @caring-communities.bsky.social A UKRI funded project on the history of children's social care from 1800-present. PI: Claudia Soares; Project team: Dr Jade Shepherd, Dr Jim Hinks and Dr Kate Wilson.
Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
Dr Will Butler @wbutlerhistory.bsky.social Head of Modern Collections @UkNatArchives writing on amateur military tradition and Irish recruiting in #WW1
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
Meredith Carroll @historicalmeredith.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham. c18th history, letters, body and Mary Toft (the woman who gave birth to rabbits). PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
Carla Linford @carlalinford.bsky.social Grimsby based freelance Historian. I post a lot about old stuff, pretty things, dogs, cats… Views my own.
Dr Paula Del Val Vales @pauladelval.bsky.social Senior Content Curator at The Social History Archive, PhD in History from the University of Lincoln, Medieval Women enthusiast and interested in households and comparative history.
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social by @nora.zone, huge thanks to @jewel.andraia.xyz, @bluebotsdonequick.com. it/its
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Gemma McLean-Carr @gemmamcarr.bsky.social PhD Student looking at Smells, Odours and Sinophobia in 19th and 20th Century Britain 👃 University of Edinburgh | Convenor of AHGN (UoE) | Museum Supervisor at Royal Scots Dragoon Museum, Edinburgh Castle 🖼
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people. 
Prof Paul Watt @paulmontycat.bsky.social 19th century musical and literary criticism; intellectual history; biography; religious history; popular culture; gender. Professor of Musicology.
Swimmer; cat dad.
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey